Apologies if this has been asked before but is there any way of providing an application that will allow a user to record his own "Pilot" WAV files so you just press a button to "record" and speak, and then the program will filter the WAV to make it sound like "radio" and save it with the correct name ?Failing that, is there already a long-hand way of doing this ?

there is a utility in the script directorybut after you record all the wavs, you will have to go through, and trim the dead air from each wav. pita.but if you do it, and they sound good, post the resultsjd

Hi,I have no problem attempting a voice pack - I have a Northern England accent....however, I will need a little more elaboration. For example what do you mean by "trimming off the dead air" ?I can't find any instructions per se., although ~I have located the recording app.Cheers

Hi,"Trimming off the dead air" is removing the silent part of each recording. Usually there is a pause between you starting the recording and speaking and again between stopping speaking and end the recording.If that dead space was left in instructions would have longish pauses between many words. Not ideal. However, with around 1780 separate recording required for a pilot set the effort to manually remove that dead space is considerable. There are software packages that can batch process a set of wav files but they're not cheap. We use SoundForge.Cheers,

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho..._id=28373#28390The "lite" version appears to do the job ?1700 heh ? Better take a sickie !

Your link takes me back to this thread. Not sure what you want me to look at.:-hmmm

Sorry !I'll let you know shorttly - I have asked SOundforge's support about the features of their products. There is a full version for some

I wouldn't mind having a go at that either. Is this the Sound Forge you guys are talking about?http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/produc...uct.asp?pid=431That one is about

you can find older versions on ebay for cheapjd

>you can find older versions on ebay for cheap>>jdAre these older versions capable of doing a good job when it comes to making ATC chat files especially in regard to "Trimming the dead air" as you and Ray Proudfoot mention above. Ray Proudfoot mentions that you use Sound Forge. What version is it may I ask. I'm only furthering this thread because like the original author, "GabeThePilot", I too would be interested in making my own chat files and until I saw this thread, I'd never even heard of Sound Forge. Thanks.Graham.

as ray will attest, it's 50% recording quality, 40% talent on knowing the tool, an 10% the tooldi've used wavepad, but it introduce some unwanted clickslook for any wav editing package that does batch processing. if it has that, there is a good chance it does good trimming.but if it is a noisy recording, no software will be able to discern noise from voicejd